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Karl Friedrich Mohr
Karl Friedrich Mohr (November 4, 1806 – September 28, 1879) was a German chemist famous for his early statement of the principle of the conservation of energy. Ammonium iron(II) sulfate, (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2.6H2O, is named Mohr's salt after him. Life Mohr was born in 1806 into the family of a prosperous druggist in Koblenz. The young Mohr received much of his early education at home, a great part of it in his father's laboratory. This experience may be responsible for much of the skill Mohr later showed in devising instruments and methods of chemical analysis. At the age of twenty-one he began to study chemistry under Leopold Gmelin, and, after five years in Heidelberg, Berlin and Bonn, he returned with the degree of PhD to join his father's establishment. Mohr's father died during 1840 at which time Mohr assumed control of the family business. He retired from it for a life of scientific leisure in 1857, but at the age of fifty-seven some serious financial losses caused him to becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohr Karl Friedrich
Mohr may refer to: Places * Mohr, Fars, a city in Iran * Mohr County, an administrative subdivision of Iran * Mohr Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran Science and math * Mohr's circle, two-dimensional graphical representation of the state of stress at a point * Mohr–Coulomb theory, mathematical model describing the response of brittle materials * Mohr–Mascheroni theorem, used in mathematics and geometry * Mohr pipette, a laboratory volumetric instrument * Mohr's salt, common name of Ammonium iron(II) sulfate Other * Mohr (surname), a German-language surname (also listing people with that surname) * Michigan Organization for Human Rights, a defunct Michigan LGBT and human rights advocacy organization * Saint Maurice (died 287), French pronunciation transliterated into German "Moritz" or short, "Mohr" * Turbah, a small clay tablet used by Shi'a Muslims during daily prayers See also * Mohur (alternate spelling), a gold coin of South Asia * Moor (disambigua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
